Growth Ruleeezzz!

I love seeing progress. For years, I've been maintaining an .htaccess file for Disobey.com - the chief benefit being to redirect any 404's to their proper location (ie., if I've done a redesign and locations have changed, etc.). It's simply a fight against linkrot I'll never give up. Since I started this .htaccess back in 1997, it has grown very large - about 100 lines, which means a slower Apache as it looks through all my rules for each and every piddly request. Today, as I went through my error log looking for new 404's, I realized I could rebuild my .htaccess to be smaller, faster, stronger. And rebuild I did, going from 100 lines down to about 40. That just tells me that the last six years dealing with Apache and regexps have been doing something for me. I smile. I smile and the world frowns, for asparagus looms within!